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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 184 -JULY 1, 1943 56 Stat. 429. Allowances for pri- vately owned vehicles. Use of District- owned vehicles. "O fficial purposes." Transfer of motor vehicles. Fire Insurance pre- IllillllLS. Strteetcar and bus fares. Limitation. Post,. p. 323. Fire and police de- partments excepted. head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1943, is hereby continued available until June 30, 1944. CENTRAL GARAGE For maintenance, care, repair, and operation of passenger-carry- ing automobiles, work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses owned by the District of Columbia, including personal services, $61,310; for purchase (including exchange) of passenger-carrying automobiles, work cars, and field wagons, $2,500; for purchase (in- cluding exchange) of one ambulance for the Health Department, $2,300; and for purchase (including exchange) of one passenger- carrying automobile for the executive office, $1,950; in all, $58,060. For allowances for furnishing privately owned motor vehicles in the performance of official duties at a rate of not to exceed $264 per year for each automobile, $13,200: Provided, That allowances under this appropriation shall be made only to persons whose duties require full-time field service. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the Dis- trict of Columbia shall be used exclusively for "official purposes" directly pertaining to the public services of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employ- ment, except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary, and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the payment of premumns or other cost of fire insurance. The Commissioners are authorized, in their discretion, to furnish necessary transportation in connection with strictly official business of the District of Columbia by the purchase of streetcar and bus fares from appropriations contained in this Act: Provided, That the expenditures herein authorized shall be so apportioned as not to exceed a total of $20,150: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not include the appropriations herein made for the fire and police departments. EMERGENCY FU1ND To be expended in case of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, public insanitary conditions, calamity by flood, or fire, or storm, and of like character, and for other purposes, in the discretion of the Commis- sioners, $3,500: Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expenditure of this appropriation for such purposes as they may deem necessary. CENTRAL CONTROL OF EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE For all expenses necessary to enable the Commissioners to carry out a plan for the organization, control, and despatch of emergency ambulance service, including personal services, printing and binding, telephone rental and installation, radio equipment, repairs to Health Department ambulance, and first-aid supplies and equipment, $12,000. F57 STAT. 318

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